Liberia Research Library: The Significance of Barth and Geertz' Model of Ethnicity in the Analysis of Nationalism in Liberia

Year:

1973

Organization / Publisher / Reference:

Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, 7(2): 237-256

Authors:

Stephen Hlophe

Areas:

Governance

Sub-topic:

self-perception

Publicly available?:

yes

Method:

Sample size (n):

1 979

Main findings:

Article written in 1974. Finds that at that time the most significant distinction at the national level has become that of Liberian and non-Liberian. Further, he adds "Ethnicity has thus served as the articulation and expression of various strategies most of which were at bottom power and class strategies. Competition between the Mulattoes and the Pure Black Settlers being one indication of this strategy."

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Tags:

governance